Liquid Fame Surfing Documentary (Video)

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA (The Boating Channel) - Liquid Fame is an award winning surfing documentary on the first U.S. Opens Surfing Championship held at Huntington Beach, California. The show features interviews with popular local surfing pros and an exclusive interview with Kathy Kohner Zuckerman - The original Gidget!

Kathy is the real life inspiration for the fictional character of Franzie (nicknamed Gidget) from the 1957 novel, Gidget: the LITTLE girl with BIG ideas, written by her father Frederick Kohner. The book sold over 500,000 copies and in 1959 Columbia Pictures, where Frederick Kohner had been a screen writer, adapted the novel into a film. Two other Gidget films were made, as well as a 1965 television series starring Sally Field and several television movies. As Kathy says, "Nobody knows I'm a real person -- they think 'Gidget' is Sandra Dee or Sally Field."

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